4 Yubl: Architecture highlights, lessons learned
This chapter covers
- The original Yubl architecture and its problems
- The new serverless architecture and the decisions behind it
- Strategies and patterns for moving monolith applications to serverless
- Lessons learned from this migration
In April 2016, I joined a social network based in London called Yubl. There I inherited a monolithic backend system written in Node.js and running on a handful of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. The original system took 2.5 years to implement and had a long list of performance and scalability issues once it went live. With a small team of six engineers, we managed to move the platform to serverless over the course of six months. Along the way, we added many ...
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